| Contact: Matt Schabert (210) 458-4930 Roadrunners keep rolling in Alamo City Classic; defeat Southwest Missouri 7-2 SAN ANTONIO – Every player in the lineup registered at least one hit and junior Caleb Barton allowed just one earned run over seven innings as the University of Texas at San Antonio baseball team kept rolling along in the Alamo City Irish Baseball Classic with a 7-2 win over Southwest Missouri Friday at Wolff Stadium. The Roadrunners, now 4-13 overall, won their third straight game in the tournament and now are scheduled to face Oral Roberts in the championship game tomorrow at 4 p.m. UTSA handed the Golden Eagles a 6-4 defeat on Thursday. With a win tomorrow, UTSA would become the only team other than the Irish to win four games in this tournament hosted by Notre Dame. Friday's win marked the 115th career coaching victory for UTSA head coach Sherman Corbett. Thursday's victory signified Corbett as the all-time winningest coach in UTSA history with 114 wins, passing former head mentor Mickey Lashley. In the win over the Bears tonight, Barton allowed just the single runs in the third and seventh innings to pick up his first career victory as a Roadrunner. He fanned four and walked only one. Junior Noah Tritz came on in the eighth and faced just one over the minimum to retire SMS, which has now dropped all three of its tournament games. At the plate, UTSA was efficient as every player got a hit, while the number one hitter, Sean Danielson, and the number nine hitter, Ryan Saltzgaber, paced the Roadrunners with two hits each. Saltzgaber, who is hitting .583 during the tournament, went 2-for-3 with an RBI to extend his hitting streak to a team-high 11 games. Danielson pushed his streak to 10 games with a 2-for-5 effort, while junior J.R. Voyles scored two runs and led UTSA with a pair of RBIs while also drawing three walks. The Roadrunners totaled 11 hits and are now batting at a .354 clip in the last three games. The Bears managed eight safeties as catcher Matt Weglarz paced SMS with a 2-for-4 showing. Barton and Tritz did not allow an extra base hit as well. UTSA scored a pair of runs in the first inning before SMS countered with a run in the third. The Roadrunners added another run in the fourth for a 3-1 lead, then broke it open in the fifth frame with four runs. In the fifth, senior Eric Moreno drew a walk and moved to to second on catcher Chris Lewis' single through the left side. Junior Lee Todesco then joined the hit parade with a single to move both runners up. Voyles, whose double last night closed the Roadrunners to within a run of Oral Roberts, nailed another two-bagger down the left field line to plate both Lewis and Moreno. Todesco then scored on Saltzgaber's sacrifice fly, and Voyles trotted home on a wild pitch for a 7-1 lead. SMS starter Paul Marsala was hit with the loss after allowing six earned runs in 4.1 innings. Chris Krawczyk closed the game on the mound for the Bears, striking out three in the final 3.2 innings. -UTSA- |